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https://www.gsam.com/content/gsam/us/en/advisors/campaigns/etf-future-planet.html I have become a huge user of ETFs for things like this. I bought an oil etf the day after Biden was elected sold it in April 23 with a 345% gain. I am holding an ETF that is short the US dollar. It is longer...

Got through a few more pics

Ummm if you count turds and toilet paper piles as climber trash

Not that could tell. The guides told me houses like that were used as stops along the trail before the trekking/climbing industry really started

I did. Nothing of interest in there

I did bring home a rock from base camp

Getting through some of the thousands of pics I took.

I don’t have a wife anymore.

To Nepal I traveled solo but on the way home I met my girlfriend in Paris and spent two weeks there. I just got back to Montana today. Meeting my kids in Bozeman today and then on to Glasgow tomorrow

Well where to start. I have working remotely a lot. Spent most of the winter in Mexico Enjoying the beach, the seafood and the lack of snow. I have traveled all over the country and the world it seems. So just enjoying my life.

Yep all that is brought in by porters or yak and mule train. Maybe some helicopters but those are expensive

Descending was another story. I found going down was often worse than going up. Also we went a slightly different route back to Lukla and the elevation loss and gain became kind of a mental game to just ignore going uphill even though you are going to end up lower. Khumjung sits at over 12,000...

The problem is that I wouldn’t even allow you to eat it after seeing how it was handled. On the way down from EBC the tea house in Pheriche had Yak steaks on the menu. I chose to not partake but three people did. All got food poisoning. I was very strict in my diet and never had an issue...

No and you can go unguided if you want to. The one thing that is a safety issue is that guides can call in air evacuation if needed. There were many people going without guides. You can hire a private porter to carry your stuff too which I saw many doing. The real bottle neck is in...

Not clean or refrigerated

After 15,500 it becomes a challenge. I seemed to do fine but above that level is when we started seeing people being evacuated due to altitude sickness.

I met a couple of team members. One father and son from Mexico City. Their summit bid came up 300 feet short due to running out of bottled oxygen

There are no roads, no cars, no trucks The only internal combustion engine you hear for two weeks is helicopters The summit is at 29,034 feet. Or two miles higher than EBC.

Base Camp rock 5 years in the making and I made it to see Mount Everest and made it to base Camp. I felt great.

Day 8 was an a$$ kicker, Lobache then up the to Gorak Shep, then drop gear, refill water and push on to Base Camp Saddled up and ready for EBC Gorak Shep at over 17,000 feet Base Camp in view!!! Mount Everest behind me

Nope I turned around at Base Camp

Post Covid EBC is much cleaner. They are fairly strict about the environmental impact Base Camp had on the area. Kind of “interesting” to see porters coming out of base camp with blue barrels labeled “Human Waste”. Considering where all the trekkers did their business along the trail...

Everest Base Camp is either one of two base camps on either side of Mount Everest. South Base Camp is located in Nepal at an altitude of 5,364m and North Base Camp is at 5,5150m in Tibet.

Generally it got between 10 and 15 Fahrenheit at night. Some days colder and day time temps were anywhere from 30 to 50. Lots of putting on and taking off layers

Yeah in Kathmandu but that was before I saw their butcher shops

Day 7 was Dingboche to Loboche and more elevation gain. Only 4.6 miles but The air is getting thinner but I felt great and like Obed forward to getting on the trail because then I would warm up. I acclimated just fine other than a slight headache which a few ibuprofen fixed. My O2 saturation...

Day 6 was rest and acclimate in Dingboche Drying Yak dung to burn. It has a pungent aroma when lit This is Tiger. One of our porters. He never quit working or smiling

A few videos of the many I took

Day 5 was 6.5 miles of more Nepali flat, huge downs followed by huge ups.

No went to base camp and back.people die when the go to the top. Oops that was meant for Elk

Day 4 was Namche to Deboche. 7.5 miles that included losing 1,000 feet into a river valley and then gaining nearly 2,500 climbing out of the valley into Deboche. Without these porters trekking would not be possible. Check out their shoes to carry between 120 and 180 lbs. Before Deboche...

Day 3 was a rest and acclimating day in Namche

Elk No I didn’t ever feel like puking and I have not drank much in the last 5 years. Just work and working out and traveling around the globe for me

Day 2 was Jorsalle to Namche Bazaar. Only 2.5 miles but it was all up hill Hillary bridge Crossing the bridge Very first glimpse of Everest Pulling into Namche

Age 58, 5 feet 11inches 220.

All treks start in Lukla First day was 8.5 miles of what they call Nepali flat. Up and down all day Always end each day at a tea house

Drove from Kathmandu to Remeche which has an airfield to catch a 20 minute flight to Lukla. It is only 60 miles but it took 4 hours. The Lukla airport is a wild ride.

Got to Kathmandu at 1:30 am and it was another world

I flew form Spokane to San Francisco to Doha Qatar where I spent almost 24 hours before getting to Kathmandu